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Word: spring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Lennox, a caretaker, and his dog have been the only occupants of the house since the CBA began holding meditation sessions there last spring. The group will not hold services until Cambridge grants a certificate of occupancy...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Buddhists May Worship In House, Court Decides | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...most of his countrymen. As a professor in Romania, he was able to travel to the West and meet regularly with intellectuals and scholars at American universities such as Columbia and Berkeley. This contact with Western thinkers gave him unique support when he was expelled from his country this spring. The Romanian government did not like his attempt to create a movement for democracy and a Free Romanian University, which were considered signs of discontent and upheaval among intellectuals. Georgescu was arrested and exiled. While at Harvard this summer, Georgescu commented on his experiences. The only way for an intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repression in Romania | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...people who will go see Losey's film are the same people who buy seats for the Metropolitan Opera when it visits Boston each spring, not the great unwashed "masses" who couldn't care less about opera, who would rather see the latest Airport movie than Don Giovanni--or, better yet, go home and turn on the television. To "Mork and Mindy...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Donning the Screen | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Controversy is not new to John Silber. In the spring of 1976 a majority of the deans and faculty called for his resignation. But Silber defended himself brilliantly and the board of trustees gave him a unanimous vote of confidence--albeit with two abstentions...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: John R. Silber: War and Peace at Boston University | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Though DeSisto may sound like a work camp dreamed up by Dickens and Freud, it has successfully straightened out disturbed youngsters who had failed to respond to treatment elsewhere. One boy, who is due to graduate next spring, had previously been expelled from a state mental hospital as uncontrollable. A recent graduate, now working on the school staff while he waits to enter college, had a long theft-and-burglary record. Until the school turned him around, he had an unusual career goal: to be a bank robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting that DeSisto Glow | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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